Drones can drop supplies to hidden Special Forces or essential medical kit in warzones, but there’s the risk that their presence may give away the recipient’s location, or that the technology ends up in enemy hands. To solve this problem, the Pentagon is calling for designs for ‘vampire’ drones t

Researchers at the University of Utrecht say that Dutch cyclists live longer than people who do not use a bike. They say the evidence proves that cycling is not just good for your health but adds an average of six months to life expectancy. People in the Netherlands cycle an average of 74 mi

October 17, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Requests made by public are not completed at the tahsildar's office in Bhatkal despite waiting in queues for extended hours, alleged Karnataka Vedike in a memorandum submitted to the Assistant Commissioner of Bhatkal. The appeal that

A 20-year-old from Saharanpur was allegedly killed in Sarahan by villagers who believed he was involved in smuggling of cattle, police said. Four others, alleged to be part of the same smuggling gang, were beaten up. Sarahan is located 37 km from Nahan, the headquarters of Himachal Pradesh’s Sirm

RIYADH: The Indian housemaid whose hand was amputated had not been tortured by her employer but had sustained her injuries after falling from a third floor window while trying to escape, according to the police here. Riyadh Police spokesman Fawaz Al-Maiman said Friday that preliminary investigation

BENGALURU: A 34 year old Police Sub Inspector attached to the Doddaballapur police was stabbed to death by house burglars. On Friday afternoon, Jagdish along with two other constables had come to Nelamangala town chasing two robbers- a father son duo reportedly identified as Raghu and Krishna.

MUMBAI: Eight people were killed in a cylinder blast which occurred on Friday afternoon in a hotel at Kurla. The deceased include seven men and one woman. The blast occurred in City Kinarra hotel located on Gurunath Wadi marg at Kurla. The deceased have been taken to a nearby civic hospital and f

The Supreme Court stayed court proceedings and a summons issued by a special CBI court against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and five others in the case of allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 to Aditya Birla group company Hindalco. The stay, which also applied to Hi

العربیہ ڈاٹ نیٹ سعودی عرب کے وزیر خارجہ عادل الجبیر نے کہا ہے کہ ان کا ملک اور ترکی دونوں شامی اپوزیشن کی مدد کے پابند ہیں۔ ان کا کہنا ہے کہ دونوں ملک عراق اور شام کی وحدت کو یقینی بنانے کی کوششیں جاری رکھیں گے۔ العربیہ ڈاٹ نیٹ کے مطابق سعودی وزیرخارجہ نے ان خیالات کا اظہار انقرہ میں اپنے ترک ہم م

NEW YORK: A 6-month-old girl died on Thursday after being thrown out of the window of a New York City apartment building, the third such tragedy in three months, police said. Her mother was in custody, Police responding to a 911 call at about 2 p.m. found the baby unconscious and unresponsive lying

JEDDAH: The Ministry of Labor has stopped issuing visas for expatriate men to work as dressmakers. The decision was taken to ensure that jobs are made available for Saudi women, said Abdelmoneim Al-Shihri, undersecretary at the ministry and assistant for special programs. Inspectors would arrest t

Mumbai, Oct 16, 2015, (PTI) After a period of slowdown, a lot of interest from the investor fraternity is witnessed in the office rental yields with Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi topping the list of 20 global cities, a recent survey said. According to a report by property consultant Knight Frank

NAVI MUMBAI: Prices of pulses have skyrocketed over the past 12 months, with tur dal rates more than doubling to touch an all-time high. It is trading in wholesale markets at Rs 190 per kg at the moment against Rs 90 in October 2014; retail prices are another Rs 20-30 higher. Following close on its

The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced labour reforms to be enforced from January 1 aimed at curbing abuse and protecting the rights of millions of foreign workers. The UAE and other Arab states in the oil-rich Gulf, notably Qatar, where a construction frenzy to host the 2022 football Worl

An ‘administrator’ of a WhatsApp group in Latur district has been arrested for objectionable content posted on the group. Police in Chakur tehsil of Latur district in Marathwada arrested the admin and three other members of the WhatsApp group after noticing objectionable content, including video

Akshay Acharya, a first-year BCom student from Hubballi, wanted to prepare for Common Proficiency Test (CPT), the first level of Chartered Accountancy (CA) examinations, after passing PUC II this year. But lack of good coaching institutes in his hometown proved a hurdle. "There are no good instit

Concerned over reaching school late due to traffic snarls caused by an under-construction flyover, an eight-year-old boy here wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose office directed the concerned department to look into the issue. "The under-construction flyover is causing problems f

The United Nations refugee agency has been forced to step in to save scores of "orphan" children from detention in filthy police cells on the Greek island of Kos after its complaints at the squalid conditions went unheeded. Children as young as 11 who arrived by boat from Turkey without their par